Drawing a single dot in indicator panel

[zacharydw00]

I want to draw a single dot & text in the MACD indicator panel when a condition is met. I have modified my own MACD, and tried using the DrawDot function, but that draws the dot on the price panel.
Can this only be done by adding another Add(new Plot... function?
Can you please point me in the right direction on how to do this?

Thank you.

UPDATE TO QUESTION: i figured out how to draw a single dot on the indicator panel. Now I would like to know how to draw text on the indicator panel(below the dot). Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Hi Zac, I know I've seen the code somewhere. Give me a few minutes and I'll find it.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

The property you're looking for is DrawOnPricePanel. Here is a link that will take you to the help guide reference for DrawOnPricePanel.

[zacharydw00]

I figured out how to draw a single dot in the indicator panel. Now I would like to know how to draw text in the indicator panel(below the dot). The DrawText function does not seem to work.
Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

I figured out how to draw a single dot on the indicator panel. Now I would like to know how to draw text on the indicator panel(below the dot). Thanks.

Zac, setting DrawOnPricePanel = false should force all Draw objects onto the indicator panel. I edited the MACD indicator a little to help me help you. You can see that it draws text and dots in the indicator window. I've also attached the indicator that I created so you can see what works--the relevant section is from line 77 to line 91.

[zacharydw00]

Maybe it's something on my end. A global setting or something. When I load your macd2, no text shows up in the indicator panel, but the dots do. I copied the drawtext line from your macd2 into my macd, but the text did not print. I uploaded my macd for you to verify.
Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

The version you posted is a little complicated for debugging purposes, so we'll use mine to find out why the text isn't being drawn.

I'll outline a few steps for you to try so we can pin this down:

1. Start Ninjatrader and close any open workspaces (or just make sure you're starting from a blank slate).
2. Open a new chart with <None> for the chart template.
3. Open the indicator window and add only macd2
4. Is the text plotted on top of the dots?

[zacharydw00]

For some reason restarting Ninja fixed the text problem this time. I did restart Ninja last time, but it did fix the text problem.
Well thanks... it's all working now.